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Stroll withdraws from F1's Spanish GP to undergo surgery
Lance Stroll has withdrawn from Sunday’s Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix and will undergo a procedure with an undisclosed recovery time.The Aston Martin driver had qualified 14th at Barcelona, where team-mate Fernando Alonso was 10th fastest.However, Stroll - who has scored all 14 of the team's points so far this season - will not take part in Sunday’s race.Aston Martin released a statement late on S...
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Spanish Grand Prix 2025 F1 starting grid after Stroll DNS
Oscar Piastri defeated Lando Norris in an all-McLaren pole duel to secure first place on the grid for Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona.Provisional Spanish GP starting grid1 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)2 Lando Norris (McLaren)3 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)4 George Russell (Mercedes)5 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)6 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)7 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)8 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)9 Isack Hadj...
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Mark Hughes: Where McLaren vs Red Bull really stands under new rule
“For us the change was always very small, I don’t know about the others,” said McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella after seeing his cars lock out the Spanish Grand Prix front row, Oscar Piastri from Lando Norris. He was talking of course about the new restrictions on front wing flexibility, which take effect from this weekend. He resisted any temptation to say ‘I told you so’, but he wo...
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'What a waste of money' - Hamilton amused by F1's flexi-wing crackdown
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton has lamented the in-season technical directive on front wing flexing as resulting in a "waste of money" that has done nothing to alter the competitive picture but just made the cars worse to drive.There was much hope in at least some circles of F1 that an introduction of more stringent test limits for front wing flexing on the 2025 cars would rein in McLaren...
Leclerc's unusual Spanish GP qualifying strategy explained
Charles Leclerc says he will take personal responsibility if Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix weekend ends in disappointment, after he pushed for the tyre calls that hurt his chances in qualifying.The Ferrari driver ended up seventh on the grid, two places behind team-mate Lewis Hamilton, after having just one set of fresh soft tyres for Q3 and electing to run early on.But he says that the calls tha...
How has Tsunoda ended up last on the Spanish GP grid?
A baffled Yuki Tsunoda has said it does not stack up that his feeling in Red Bull's Formula 1 car translated into last place in Spanish Grand Prix qualifying, as he feels he has been making "good progress…and suddenly it drops like hell".Tsunoda was slowest in Q1 at Barcelona, six tenths behind team-mate Max Verstappen despite the four-time F1 world champion only completing a single run earlier in...
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F1 2025 qualifying duels: Team by team
The 2025 Formula 1 season presents 30 opportunities to compare drivers against their team-mates at full tilt over one lap - 24 grand prix qualifying sessions and six sprint qualifyings.Our team-by-team breakdown of the qualifying match-ups below, featuring a head-to-head comparison, an average of the gaps taken from the last representative segment in qualifying that both relevant drivers took part...
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Spanish Grand Prix 2025 F1 qualifying results
Oscar Piastri defeated Lando Norris in an all-McLaren pole duel to secure first place on the grid for Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona.Provisional Spanish GP starting grid1 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)2 Lando Norris (McLaren)3 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)4 George Russell (Mercedes)5 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)6 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)7 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)8 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)9 Isack Hadj...
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Piastri defeats Norris in Spanish GP pole duel
Oscar Piastri came from behind to defeat Lando Norris in Formula 1's all-McLaren Spanish Grand Prix pole duel.Norris was 0.017 seconds up on Piastri after the initial attempts, the pair split by no more than three hundredths in each of the sectors - but while Norris then found 0.06s on his previous best, Piastri strung together a more potent response.His 1m11.546s lifted him two tenths clear of No...
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F1 Spanish Grand Prix practice results
Practice threeA commanding start to qualifying day for McLaren with Oscar Piastri half a second clear of Lando Norris in a 1-2 for the team.1 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) 1m12.387s2 Lando Norris (McLaren) +0.526s3 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +0.743s4 George Russell (Mercedes) +0.752s5 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.988s6 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) +0.995s7 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +1.018s8 Fernando Alons...
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McLaren dominates final Spanish Grand Prix practice
Any hopes that McLaren might be pegged back by Formula 1's flexi-wing clampdown looked remote as Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris took a commanding 1-2 in final Spanish Grand Prix practice.The 0.526-second gap between them was accentuated by some bouncing compromising Norris's first run on soft tyres.Charles Leclerc's Ferrari and George Russell's Mercedes were both seven tenths off Piastri as they t...
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'Disconnected' tyre should force Spanish GP strategy variety
The Spanish Grand Prix looks set to avoid the one-stop fate of other Formula 1 races this season thanks to the high-speed ultra-rough track surface and a hard tyre option that drivers cannot get to work.While F1 tyre supplier Pirelli has pushed hard to try to force teams into two-stoppers, it has not happened as much as hoped – with the Bahrain GP being the only two-stop race this year that was no...
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Why Williams's prospects are suddenly so bleak in Spain
Williams is braced for a bleak Spanish Grand Prix by its current standards as even its much-improved 2025 Formula 1 car is proving incompatible with the Barcelona circuit. A revived Williams is comfortably fifth in the championship, has qualified in the top 10 with at least one car at every race this season, and scored points every weekend except for Bahrain where both drivers were compromised by ...
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Gary Anderson's early winners and losers from F1's flexi-wing clampdown
It’s only the end of the first day of the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, but it offers a glimpse of which Formula 1 teams may have benefitted, and which appear to have suffered most, from the flexi-wing technical directive.I have often said that sometimes you can out-trick yourself and when you are relying on front wing deflection between slow and high-speed corners to help balance the car it will be...
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Was this long-awaited F1 session debut strong enough?
Williams’s new Formula 1 recruit placing 19th on his free practice debut, almost six tenths off regular Carlos Sainz, might not seem significant - but Victor Martins’ F1 bow has been a long time coming and was more impressive than it might first appear.Martins was a fierce title rival to current F1 championship leader Oscar Piastri in Formula Renault in 2019, returning to win that series one year ...
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Mark Hughes: Red Bull's made the strongest start to F1's new era
The first grand prix Friday of the brave new world of the tighter wing flex regulations looked superficially much like any other. But there was a bit more dissatisfaction evident from the drivers about the feel of their cars. It’s impossible at this stage to decouple how much of that was from the more compromised set-ups the new regulations imposed and how much from the combination of a very hot B...
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Our trackside take on day one of F1's aero policing reset
Barcelona has a deserved reputation as a demanding aerodynamic test of a Formula 1 car, hence its reputation as an ideal test track.With intrigue surrounding the impact of the front-wing flexibility technical directive, Friday practice for the Spanish Grand Prix is the ideal opportunity to watch trackside to see first-hand if there was any evidence of the impact of the change.
For FP1, I head t...
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Six things we learned from rare Briatore media appearance
The Formula 1 team bosses' press conference at the Spanish Grand Prix marked the first appearance in such a session for Flavio Briatore for a decade and a half, following his change in position within the Alpine Formula 1 structure.Briatore, who headed Alpine's predecessors Benetton and Renault in F1 before being banned (and then unbanned) from the sport as a result of 2008's Singapore Grand Prix ...
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What went on in second Spanish GP F1 practice
Formula 1 championship leader Oscar Piastri set the fastest lap in second practice for the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix, with George Russell and Max Verstappen rounding out the top three.The session was uneventful but for a spin for Ollie Bearman early on as the Haas driver went into the gravel at Turn 3, possibly picking up some floor damage. A spectacular spin for Ollie Bearman! He drops a wheel onto...
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F1 Spanish Grand Prix practice results
Practice oneLando Norris led Max Verstappen and the Ferraris in the weekend's opening practice session on Friday.1 Lando Norris (McLaren) 1m13.718s2 Max Verstappen (Red Bull) +0.367s3 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) +0.378s4 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +0.520s5 Oscar Piastri (McLaren) +0.576s6 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) +0.621s7 Ollie Bearman (Haas) +0.879s8 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) +0.887s9 Yuki Tsunod...
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